For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite ...
The Quaternary, which spans approximately the last 2 million years, is characterized by dramatic environmental changes, commonly known as the "ice age ...
Allardyce Nicoll's History of English Drama, 1660-1900 was an immense scholarly achievement and the work of one man. Nicoll's History, which tells the ...
Most writings on church history have been concerned mainly with church hierarchy, and with theology, liturgy and canon law. This book looks at the chu ...
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists u ...
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich ...
A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the tradi ...
The northern pike—sometimes affectionately known as the “aquatic wolf”—is one of the most sought after and mythologized fishes in Minnesota, but until ...
Introduction to Greek cinema --Early Greek cinema (1905-1945) --Constructing a visual language (1945-1960) --Glory and demise (1960-1970) --The formal ...
For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite ...
Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a cent ...
Is gender determined by biology, society or experience? How have notions of gender and sexuality differed in past societies? Addressing such questions ...
Roman law, one of the key legal systems from which modern European law is derived, is also one of the binding factors par excellence within the Europe ...
This exciting history, featuring an introduction by famed DJ John Peel, tells the two-decade-long history of grindcore and death metal through the eye ...
Despite its international significance, Madrid has been almost entirely ignored by urban, literary and cultural studies published in English. A Cultur ...
This expansive history depicts Latin America s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typi
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explore ...
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich ...
Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a bold and provocative new story ...
This book is the first thoroughgoing study in any language of the philosophy of music history. Drawing on competing philosophies of history throughout ...
This comparative historical study of econometrics focuses on the development of econometric methods and their application to macroeconomics. The analy ...
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They chall ...
A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single ...
Development of the thermionic valve. Historical survey of early research in semiconductors. Development of the transistor. Major technical processes u ...
The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources ...
